Self-sufficiency and sustainable lifestyle(s) Books
Octopus Publishing Group How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: Simple Ways
Book SynopsisDo you ever feel overwhelmed by the thought of the climate emergency?Do you want an eco-friendly lifestyle but don't know where to start?Then dive into this little book, full of simple, achievable ways to help you reduce your carbon footprint. From tips on creating a more eco-friendly home and ways to reduce your plastic use, to advice on shopping sustainably, within these pages you will discover everything you need to know to help you make planet-friendly choices and live a more sustainable life.
£8.54
Practical Inspiration Publishing My Happy Place: Healthy, sustainable and humane
Book SynopsisThis is the go-to-guide for anyone wanting to create healthy, humane and sustainable working and living spaces. Whether you’re a design professional or just someone who cares about their living space, discover how to create designs that promote mental and physical wellbeing whilst being good for the planet. From wall coverings to floor coverings, furniture to fabric, and with a special note on nurseries, Rachel Fowler uses her background in healthcare alongside her design expertise to reveal how the way we furnish our living spaces impacts on our health and happiness.Richly illustrated, with top tips for selecting products, questions to ask when buying materials, information on suppliers and a glossary of sustainable and vegan certifications, this is a unique resource for creating a kinder, more beautiful way of living.Rachel Fowler used to be a paediatric intensive care nurse before swapping scrubs for a sketch-pad and committing herself to a full-time 3-year degree in interior design. Having graduated with Honours, she now runs her own design business focused on healthy, humane design, including her own line of sustainable wallpaper.Trade ReviewAwesome book for eco-friendly design. Tons of information on each option and where you can find the items to purchase. The book includes different wall coverings (paint, wall paper, etc), flooring and furniture. Super helpful for anyone wanting to move toward more eco-friendly design. * NetGalley *Table of ContentsTable of ContentsSectionInformationPreface-Introduction-Chapter 1WallcoveringsIntroduction to wall coverings.PaintWallpaperWoodConcreteNatural stineClay plasterCorkChapter 2Floor CoveringsIntroduction to floor coveringsWoodBambooPalm woodNatural stoneTilesConcreteCorkNatural linoleumChapter 3FurnitureIntroduction to furnitureBasic materials used in furniture design.Cheap versus expensive What makes an item of furniture sustainable and animal friendly.Alternative approach to buying to furniture.Made to order or mass produced.What does furniture add to a space.Top tips when selecting furnitureChapter 4LightingIntroduction to lighting.Effects of lighting on our wellbeing.Environmental effects of lighting.Traditional methods of lighting.Sustainable methods of lighting.Top tips when selecting lighting.Chapter 5FabricIntroduction to fabricWhat makes a fabric sustainable and animal friendly.What fabrics are Considered to be sustainable and animal friendly?Top tips when buying sustainable and animal friendly fabrics.Chapter 6AccessoriesIntroduction to accessories.How to successfully accessorize your home or work space.Top tipsChapter 7Infant nurseriesIntroduction.Designing an infant’s nurseryGlossary of sustainable and vegan product suppliers-Glossary of sustainable and vegan certifications-Bibliography-Acknowledgment-
£37.31
Permanent Publications A Food Forest in Your Garden: Plan It, Grow It,
Book SynopsisGrow your own seasonal food in a low maintenance, nature-friendly garden that feels like a woodland glade. Scottish plant expert Alan Carter shows you how to plan and plant a temperate forest garden for any sized plot-from a small terrace garden to an allotment or smallholding. Learn how to successfully layer root crops, fruit, perennial vegetables and edible shrubs below tree crops, cultivating an edible garden that doesn't look like a traditional vegetable plot. A forest garden is wildlife friendly, provides nutrient-dense and often unusual food through every season, and requires minimal work to maintain. The first part of this in-depth, practical guide explains how a forest garden works, how to map your climate and design your own plot, and how to manage it with mulching, weeding and pruning. What's not to like about Alan's motto of "the more you pick, the more you get," and intriguing concepts such as the Panda Principle? The second half of the book is a detailed directory of more than 170 plants and fungi suitable for a wide range of temperate climates, complete with growing, harvesting and cooking tips based on over a decade of Alan's own experience. Learn how to incorporate traditional fruit and vegetable crops, such as strawberries and beans, into your forest garden, and how to weave in more unusual crops, such as shiitake mushrooms and ferns. Techniques from agro-ecology bring regenerative farming into the backyard, helping you to work towards greater self-sufficiency. Useful tips on seed saving and propagation help keep plant costs low, and there is practical advice on soil health, compost-essential for all no dig, organic gardeners-and pests and disease. A Food Forest in Your Garden will help you create your own productive forest gardens even in cooler climates.
£16.96
Rockpool Publishing Plants of Power: Cultivate your garden apothecary
Book SynopsisDiscover. Know. Grow. In these times of climate change and uncertainty, people everywhere are looking for ways to reclaim their relationship with the land and take back their health and confidence with the help of plants. Plants of Power is a modern guide to the foundational plants you can grow in your own garden apothecary. Reconnect with the natural world, discover age-old wisdom and tap into the power of plants to help us, whether for mood, healing, love or other aspects of our lives. Discover 66 amazing easy-to-grow plants that can change a garden - and a life! Detailed information and growing advice on 66 Plants of Power. Discover the history, mythos, magic and medicinal benefits of these plants. Fantastic recipes and plant projects to try. Planting guide by the seasons gives you the best chance of growing success. Learn all about wild foraging. A treasure trove of tips on successful propagation and cultivation. Join Stacey Demarco and Miranda Mueller for a stroll through the seasonal wheel of growing, foraging and harvesting these most powerful plant allies, whether for medicine, food or a little touch of magic. Getting your hands in the dirt has never been so much fun!
£18.75
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Modern Homestead Garden
Book SynopsisWith this accessible and indispensable gardening reference, discover how little land and effort it takes to start growing and preserving your own healthy organic food.Modern homesteading is a lifestyle focused on living lightly on the land and increasing self-sufficiency. It doesn’t matter whether “home” is 50 acres in the country, a suburban corner lot, or an apartment in the city; all you need is a desire to reduce your footprint on the earth and live a more sustainable life. To be a modern homesteader, you don’t have to live off-grid and you don’t have to give up contemporary conveniences.For most modern homesteaders, it all starts with making the conscious decision to reduce your reliance on the commercial food supply chain. In The Modern Homestead Garden, author and YouTube gardening star Gary Pilarchik of The Rusted Garden walks you step-by-step through the process of building a homestead gardeTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: What Is a Modern Homestead Garden? CHAPTER ONE Building Your First Garden CHAPTER TWO Planting Your Garden and the Best Vegetables to Grow CHAPTER THREE Seeds, Seed Starting, and Transplants CHAPTER FOUR Feeding Your Homestead Garden CHAPTER FIVE Building Earth and Raised Beds CHAPTER SIX Homestead Container Gardening CHAPTER SEVEN Tending Your Gardens CHAPTER EIGHT Problems, Pests, Diseases, and the Power of Pollinators CHAPTER NINE Creating an Edible Landscape on Your Homestead CHAPTER TEN Using the Homestead Harvest Acknowledgments About the Author Index
£16.14
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Beautiful Salads
Book SynopsisBeautiful Salads presents 70+ recipes for healthy, organic, seasonal salads and dressings to make and enjoy year round.Table of ContentsIntroduction Spring Salads Spring Marinated Asparagus Salad with Simple Spring Vinaigrette Sautéed Fiddlehead Fern and Mâche Salad with Spring Ramp Vinaigrette Fresh Fig and Mesclun Salad with Sweet Honey Vinaigrette Ravishing Radish Salad with Chive and Cracked Pepper Vinaigrette Mother’s Day Melon and Baby Spring Greens Salad with Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette Pea Sprout and Strawberry Salad with Strawberry Rhubarb Vinaigrette Baby New Potato and Upland Cress Salad with Chive and Cracked Pepper Vinaigrette Grilled Pork Tenderloin Medallions on Spring Greens with Rosemary and Rhubarb Vinaigrette Grilled Spring Lamb Chop and Fresh Arugula Salad with Apple Mint Vinaigrette Red Raspberries and Spring Mâche Salad with Raspberry and Pink Peppercorn Vinaigrette Spring Bing Cherry and Curly Cress Salad with Ginger Cherry Vinaigrette Spicy Grilled Shrimp and Strawberry Salad with Spicy Strawberry Vinaigrette Asparagus Caesar with Creamy SarVecchio Parmesan Caesar Dressing Fresh Dandelion Greens Salad with Scallion and Honey Bacon Vinaigrette Baby Greens and Fava Beans Salad with Simple Spring Vinaigrette Garden Fresh Tabbouleh Salad with Zesty Lemon Vinaigrette Memorial Day Quinoa Salad with Ginger Cherry Vinaigrette Beet Greens, Golden Beet, and Blueberry Salad à la mode with Savory Blueberry Vinaigrette Wild Crab-Stuffed Artichoke Salad with Lemon Tarragon Dressing Arugula and Asparagus Salad with Zesty Lemon Vinaigrette Summer Salads Mango Tango Salad with Chili Lime Vinaigrette Summer “Sea-sar” Salad with Creamy Lemony Dill Caesar Dressing Grilled Grass-Fed Steak Salad with Creamy Cowboy Ranch Dressing Plum Great Salad with Plum and Cilantro Vinaigrette Peachy Keen Salad with Peach Vinaigrette Heirloom Tomato Salad with Creamy Buttermilk Asiago Dressing Summer Shore Salad with Sweet Onion and Tarragon Dressing Red, White, and Blueberry Salad with Pink Lemonade Vinaigrette Grilled Wild Salmon and Red Raspberry Salad with Pink Peppercorn and Raspberry Vinaigrette Grilled Veggies and Cheese Tortellini Salad with Basil and Sun-Dried Tomato Vinaigrette Nectarine and Nasturtium Salad with Simple Summer Vinaigrette Tri-Color Marinated Pole Bean Salad with Lemon and Chive Vinaigrette Sweet Corn and Confetti Cabbage Slaw with Creamy Cilantro and Cayenne Pepper Dressing Farmers’ Market Cobb Salad with Buttermilk and Peppercorn Dressing Asian Summer Slaw with Honey Ginger Vinaigrette Picnic Table Potato Salad with Stone-Ground Mustard Vinaigrette Bitter Greens and Golden Berry Salad with Balsamic and Vanilla Bean Vinaigrette Apricot and Arugula Salad with Curried Apricot Vinaigrette Aunt Nan’s Nectarine Salad with Warm Bacon and Nectarine Dressing Rainier Cherry Salad with Cherry Vinaigrette Watermelon and Hidden Springs Feta Salad with Watermelon and Lemon Basil Vinaigrette Autumn Salads Mediterranean Roasted Beet Salad with Fennel and Sweet Orange Vinaigrette Orchard Apple and Green Kale Chopped Salad with Maple Cream Dressing NaNa’s Brown Sugar and Curly Kale Salad with Brown Sugar Vinaigrette Autumn Cobb Salad with Cranberry and Sage Vinaigrette Sweet Seckel Pear and Dried Wild Blueberries Salad with Savory Blueberry Vinaigrette Asian Pear and Dried Cherry Salad with Gingered Pear Vinaigrette Grilled Bartlett Pear Salad with Simple Autumn Vinaigrette Harvest Tomato Panzanella Salad with Basil and Sun-Dried Tomato Vinaigrette Three Orchard Apple Salad with Simple Autumn Vinaigrette Fresh Cranberry and Red Anjou Pear Salad with Cranberry Vinaigrette Autumn Waldorf Salad with Creamy Honey and Sweet Tarragon Dressing Curried Grilled Pork Medallion Salad with Curried Apricot Vinaigrette Dark Cacao-Roasted Sweet Potato Salad with Dark Chocolate and Chili Vinaigrette Brussels Sprout Petal Salad with Lemony Sage Vinaigrette Autumn Cabbage and Grape Slaw with Simple Autumn Vinaigrette Autumn Dried Apricot and Couscous Salad with Curried Apricot Vinaigrette Fresh Mozzarella and Shredded Kale Salad with Basil and Sun-Dried Tomato Vinaigrette Winter Salads Arugula and Tangerine Salad with Tangerine Vinaigrette Garbanzo and Greens Salad with Lemon Tahini Dressing Ruby Red and Avocado Green Holiday Salad with Ginger Grapefruit Vinaigrette Soiree Salad Sampler with a Variety of Vinaigrettes Oh, My Darling Clementine Salad with Cilantro Vinaigrette Dried Fig and Cara Cara Orange Salad with Cara Cara Vinaigrette Winter Black Grape Salad with Sweet Balsamic Vinaigrette Merry Fruit Medley Salad with Zesty Pomegranate Cinnamon Vinaigrette Winter Bitter Greens Salad with Sweet Apple and Cinnamon Vinaigrette Tamari Tofu Cobb Salad with Simple Winter Vinaigrette Winter Green Salad with Green Apple and Basil Vinaigrette Chipotle Caesar Salad with Creamy Chipotle Caesar Dressing Citron-Roasted Brussels Sprout Salad with Fresh Rosemary and Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette Pink Pummelo and Heart of Palm Salad with Honey Pepper Vinaigrette Tarragon Chicken and Napa Cabbage Salad with Creamy Tarragon Dressing Resources Index
£16.14
Bramble & Bean Publishing House Never Mind the Burdocks 365 Days of Foraging in
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£13.29
Permanent Publications The Forager's Garden
Book SynopsisA handy, accessible guide to creating your own paradise plot where you can forage throughout the year Anna Locke condenses years of hands-on experience to walk you through the skills and techniques you need to design and plant a delicious, useful, and thriving garden in town or country that is also a haven for wildlife as well as for humans. She encourages us to see our gardens as part of a bigger, local food strategy that can help to generate abundance, health and resilience. This book provides: An overview of organic gardening techniques-great for the beginner A basic, accessible guide to designing your garden Insights into how to plant guilds and choose what is right for your space Valuable information on how 'weeds' can become harvests A choice of nutritious, seasonal plants for any sized plot Techniques to grow maximum food with minimal work Practices that reconnect you with Nature and enhance well-being Money saving tips to make a forager's garden available to anyone! The Forager's Garden demonstrates one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways possible to grow and harvest food.
£8.96
Fox Chapel Publishing What the Cluck?: The Omlet guide to keeping
Book SynopsisOmlet's easy-to-clean, safe and stylish Eglu chicken houses became an instant design icon when they were launched in 2004. Omlet quickly became most popular brand among chicken keepers, appealing to a new generation of people wanting to keep chickens as pets in their back gardens. This complete guide covers everything a novice chicken keeper needs to know, and reimagines the way you live with and look after your chickens. From helping you select the right variety of chicken to buy and setting up your coop, through to training them, rearing chicks and even showing them at events, this really is a one-stop guide to becoming a confident and expert owner. As well as background history on the chicken, there is a wealth of information on eggs and delicious recipes for cooking your eggs perfectly. Questions posed by Omlet's chicken-keeping customers are all answered here, with special emphasis on how to look after your chickens, dealing with common pests and diseases, and a year round planner to help you keep on top of the little maintenance jobs. With advice on practical matters such as runs and coops, to what and how to feed your chickens for maximum fowl fitness, this eggcellent guide from Omlet aims to ensure you have the happiest chickens on the planet.
£14.44
BIS Publishers B.V. This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable
Book SynopsisThis is the definitive and comprehensive guide for what you can do about climate change and to contribute to a better world. It contains lists of go-to shops, beautiful brands, inspiring insights, surprising facts and useful solutions. Through in-depth interviews with leading pioneers, such as Livia Firth, Green Kitchen Stories and Andrew Morgan, you will find exactly what you need to live a more sustainable life. After all, doing good and feeling good at the same time: does it not get any better than that?This revised edition is the newly updated version of the international bestseller This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable Lifestyle (30.000 copies sold worldwide). All stores, brands, addresses and initiatives are up-to-date with new shops and labels. The book has new interviews, revised facts and figures, and an additional eight pages of tips and tricks.
£17.99
Octopus Publishing Group The Zero-Waste Kitchen: Delicious Recipes and
Book SynopsisThis book will help you save money, buy less and do your bit for the environment - just through loving your leftovers! It's your essential guide to shopping smarter and making meals that go the extra mile.Trying to be more sustainable and eco-friendly in the kitchen may seem like a daunting task, but with a little bit of help and encouragement you can dramatically reduce your food waste. Not only does this help your budget, as you don't have to buy so much food, but it can also help to save the planet - because when you're using up your leftovers rather than throwing them away, you reduce your carbon footprint.The Zero-Waste Kitchen includes:- Meal-planning hacks- Simple ways to store your food for maximum freshness- Ideas for growing vegetables and fruit from the scraps you usually throw away- An A-Z guide to common leftovers and how they can be used in the kitchen and beyond- Easy-to-follow recipes for using up ingredients that tend to go to wasteAnd much, much more!
£9.49
Cool Springs Press Kitchen Garden Living
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£19.80
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fatal Conveniences
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Bending the planet to our will comes at a cost—a debt to human and environmental well-being we’ve packaged, sold, and blindly incurred that has now come due. Darin Olien’s Fatal Conveniences provides a stunning and urgent reconciliation of the many invisible ways the convenience of modern products we trust—our food, our homes, our clothing—are in truth shockingly toxic, buffered with pragmatic solutions for a healthier future. An evidence-based primer for better living, this book is a must-read reality check, offering a better way forward for all.” — Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra "Darin’s eye-opening book is a necessary education for us all to understand the invisible challenges of how our health is being harmed by modern toxic exposures. Alongside the shocking discoveries presented herein, Darin shares very pragmatic solutions leading to a healthier and better way forward for us and our environment." — Max Lugavere, New York Times bestselling author of Genius Foods and host of the Genius Life podcast "Fatal Conveniences is a book the world has been waiting for, a compendium of what we don’t know, weren’t told, and are lied to about: the presence of synthetic toxins that are deceptively but deliberatively added to our food, cosmetics, clothing, and homes. Darin’s research is revelatory and shocking, a what-to-do-manual for living purely, cleanly, and simply." — Paul Hawken, Executive Director, Project Regeneration
£18.75
F&W Publications Inc Food Storage for SelfSufficency and Survival
Book SynopsisBe Well Prepared and Well Fed!With all the uncertainty in the world today, there is peace in preparing. In an emergency, you don''t want to depend on a grocery store or government agency to feed your family. Storing food assures your family''s self-sufficiency year-round and benefits your budget when you plan correctly.This in-depth, nuts-and-bolts guide to storing food teaches you a variety of food storage methods that you can customize to meet your family''s unique circumstances including family size, tastes, ages, health concerns, income, and living conditions. This is not a generic manual on stocking dehydrated meals that have ten-year shelf lives. It''s the guide to storing foods your family loves so you can eat well no matter what challenges life throws at you.Inside you''ll find: • Food-storage options for 72-hour emergency kits, short-term emergencies and long-term survival. • Food-storage
£14.39
Workman Publishing How to Make Maple Syrup: From Gathering Sap to
Book SynopsisThird-generation syrup makers Alison and Steven Anderson show you how to collect sap using a tree-friendly tubing system and then cook, package, and even market your own syrup. With expert advice for first-time bottlers, the Andersons share their passion with a contagious excitement that is as inspiring as a bowl of sugar on snow.
£9.87
Permanent Publications The Orchard Book: Plan, Plant and Maintain Fruit
Book SynopsisWonderlands of bounty and beauty, orchards offer an abundance of fruit in a wildlife haven full of diversity. A well-managed orchard works with nature to provide maximum harvest for minimal effort. Wade Muggleton has distilled 20 years of orchard know-how into this practical handbook to help you plan, plant and manage your orchard, whatever your garden size or budget. With his expert guidance you can have an orchard on any plot-garden, yard, allotment or smallholding-and both maximise your harvest and minimise your outlay. The book covers: Rootstocks and fruit varieties Planting plans Maintenance strategies Pruning Propagation Eco-friendly pest and disease management Harvesting Storing Preserving the harvest The diversity, history and heritage of apples and other fruit trees is fascinating, and Wade's passion for them is infectious. Let him draw you into a world of apples and pears, walnuts and cobnuts, cherries and plums; of ancient varieties such as quince, medlar and mulberry; and even of juicy apricots, figs and peaches. Imagine having organic fruit all year round from your own little nature haven and use Wade's tried and tested experience to create your perfect orchard.
£13.46
Skyhorse Publishing Prepper's Pantry: Build a Nutritious Stockpile to
Book SynopsisA necessary addition to any prepper's or survivalists's shelf! A one-year food supply means freedom. It means that you are less subject to the whims of the economy or personal financial emergencies. You can handle small disasters with aplomb. You aren't reliant on the government if a crisis strikes. You can’t be manipulated because your family is hungry. This edition provides to a detailed compendium of all things food storage. Geared towards preppers, it teaches you: Why everyone needs a food supply in their homes How much food you need How your pantry is directly related to your health The components of a perfect pantry Prepping for those with dietary restrictions A thrifty new way of shopping so you can afford to build your pantry How to store the food you purchase to extend the shelf life for as long as possible A week-by-week plan, complete with shopping lists and menu ideas How to save money by making items most people purchase ready-made at the store Pantry inventory and maintenance Where to store all of that food Bonus: 25 frugal and delicious recipes If you’re new at this, you can take the most important step today--the step of getting started. You'll have a year's supply of food in no time at all!
£9.89
New Society Publishers Raising Goats Naturally 2nd Edition
Book Synopsis Produce your own milk, cheese, meat, fiber, fertilizer, and more Incorporating dairy goats into a diversified homestead can be the key to greater self-sufficiency. Responding to questions and concerns from readers from all over North America and beyond, this fully revised and expanded edition of Raising Goats Naturally will help readers work with nature to raise dairy goats to produce milk, cheese, meat, fertilizer, leather, fiber, and soap all without relying on drugs or following the factory farm model. By observing your own animals closely and educating yourself about their specific needs, you can create an individualized plan for keeping them healthy and maximizing their productivity. This unique, fully-illustrated guide will teach you to help your herd thrive with: Breed-specific descriptions to help you choose the right goats for your goals and lifestyle Detailed information on housing, fencing, breeding, health, milkingTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Part I: Planning, Purchasing, and Protecting 1. Choosing Your Goats Breeds Does Bucks Registration Pedigree Purchasing 2. Housing Your Goats Shelter Bedding 3. Protecting Your Goats Fencing Livestock Guardians Part II: Raising, Remedies, and Reproduction 4. Day-to- Day Life With Goats Behavior Anatomy Health Grooming First Aid Supplies Medicating the Sick Goat 5. Feeding Your Goats Rotational Grazing Hay Grain Minerals Baking Soda 6. Parasites Internal Parasites Controlling Internal Parasites Preventing Infection External Parasites Controlling External Parasites 7. Injury, Illnesses, and Diseases Abortion and Stillbirth Abscesses Acidosis Bloat Brucellosis Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis Constipation Cryptosporidiosis Enterotoxemia Floppy Kid Syndrome Foot Rot Hardware Disease Hypocalcemia Infertility in Bucks Infertility in Does Johne's Disease Ketosis Listeriosis Mastitis Nutritional Deficiencies Neonatal Mortality Pinkeye Polio (Polioencephalomalacia) Respiratory Conditions Ringworm Scours Scrapie Skin Cancer Sore Mouth Tetanus Tuberculosis Urinary Stones (Urinary Calculi) White Muscle Disease Vaccines 8. Breeding Breeding Season Breeding Age Signs of Estrus Breeding Methods Buck Behavior Successful Breeding Artificial Insemination Feeding for Fertility 9. Pregnancy Gestation Signs of Pregnancy False Pregnancy Feeding During Pregnancy 10. Birthing Getting Ready Signs of Labor Birth Feeding Post Birth Newborn Check Kid Complications 11. Raising Kids Getting Started With Dam Raising Getting Started With Bottle-feeding Poop Feeding Grain and Forage Horns Castrating Males Tattooing and Ear Tags Weaning Barn Hygiene 12. Milking Managing Milkers Naturally Teaching a Doe to Milk Milking Equipment Milking by Hand Milking With a Machine Handling Milk Storing Milk Part III: Milk, Meat, and More 13. The Dairy Kitchen Equipment Ingredients 14. Dairy Products Buttermilk and Sour Cream Yogurt Sweets 15. Acid-ripened Cheeses Vinegar Citric Acid 16. Culture-ripened Cheeses Choosing Cultures Flocculation Cutting Curds Semi-hard and Hard Cheeses 17. Meat Meat Quality Butchering Cooking 18. Soap Processes Safety Equipment Ingredients Step-by- Step Soap Making Final Thoughts Notes Glossary Suggested Reading Recipe Index Index About the Author About New Society Publishers
£22.49
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Low Waste Kitchen
£21.24
Workman Publishing The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner: What to
Book SynopsisThis hardworking addition to the best-selling Backyard Homestead series offers expert advice on what tasks to do around your farm and when to do them — no matter where on the planet you call home. Author Ann Larkin Hansen sets the priorities for each area of the farm, including the barn, garden, orchard, field, pasture, and woodlot. For every critical turn of the year (12 in all), Hansen provides an at-a-glance to-do list along with tips and a more in-depth discussion of key topics for the season. Easy-reference charts, checklists, and record-keeping sections help you keep track of it all. Also available in this series: The Backyard Homestead, The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects, The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, and The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How.
£14.24
Workman Publishing The Family Cow
Book SynopsisA family cow can provide an endless supply of delicious fresh milk, but also requires a large investment of time and money. In this practical guide, Dirk van Loon provides detailed information on choosing an appropriate breed for your needs, nutrition, milking, health care, and bovine behavior. With expert advice on everything you need to know keep your animal healthy, happy, and productive, you'll soon be enjoying all the benefits a family cow can bring.
£13.29
Little, Brown & Company Cabin Porn Inspiration for Your Quiet Place
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£21.84
Guangzhou Publishing Warehouse Life - Guide To Unconventional Living Spaces
£15.15
HarperCollins Publishers BOSH How to Live Vegan Simple tips and easy
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£8.99
Hardie Grant Explore Wild Life: 50 Projects to Rewild Your Life From
Book SynopsisWild Life is an achingly beautiful gift book that introduces the concept of rewilding. No matter whether you live in the mountains, by the coast, along the banks of a river or in the inner-city, this book is your passport to disconnect from one world and reconnect with another; to put down your devices and pick up where your wild self left off. Featuring stunning photography and illustrations that evoke the magic and healing effects of nature, Wild Life offers 50 accessible projects that will bring rewilding into your life. You’ll press wildflowers, rewild your garden and create a series of micro adventures in your hometown or city. You’ll use the sky to find north and the trees to find your way while out camping and hiking. You’ll close your eyes and listen to the birds, kick off your shoes and forage for seaweed. You’ll reconnect with your roots, and somewhere along the way, find yourself again.
£15.29
Tuttle Publishing Easy Shibori Tie Dye Techniques: Do-It-Yourself
Book SynopsisEasy home tie-dyeing techniques with a Japanese twist!If you love the simple blue-on-white beauty of Shibori and want to learn some new dyeing techniques, this book is for you! Easy Shibori Tie Dye Techniques starts with the essentials of the dye vat, takes you step-by-step through the basics, and shows you innovative ideas for tying and resist dyeing techniques. Old garments become unique fashion statements. Tired home goods are upcycled into one-of-a-kind design elements. This book also shows you creative ways of making unusual patterns—using anything from a coin to a clothespin to a water bottle!With this unique book you will learn how to: Use small plastic balls to create unique snowflake burst effects Make edgy geometric patterns using foam blocks Do a bit of pleating and rolling with the help of a plastic water bottle to create unique motifs Create polka dots—neatly arranged or artistically haphazard—using coins and clothespins Use different folding techniques to achieve gradient effects Apply methods and tricks to knitted and woven shirts, bags, table cloths, and more! The techniques in this book are easy enough for beginners and will also inspire experienced dyers. Just about any fabric item in your wardrobe or linen closet be transformed and repurposed with a bit of dye, and the creative techniques in this book!
£13.49
Quadrille Publishing Ltd Live Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life
Book SynopsisLive Green is a practical guide of 52 sustainable living changes – one for each week of the year – you can make to be more self-sufficient and reduce your impact on the environment.Many of us are already doing what we can to adopt a greener lifestyle. We recycle, try to reduce our waste and plastics, choose organic food when shopping, eat less meat and opt for environmentally friendly cleaning products. Yet we often wish we were doing more and it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Live Green tackles all areas of your life from your cleaning routine, home furnishings, food shopping, fashion choices, natural beauty and Christmas, and has all the ingredients to help you achieve a more sustainable year.From making your own eco-friendly cleaning products, buying vintage furniture, making your own moth repellent and improving your natural beauty regime to creating a capsule wardrobe and creating your own ethical Christmas decorations – discover how to get the most out of life by living with intention.Live simply. Live Green.
£7.64
Workman Publishing The Backyard Lumberjack
Book SynopsisWhether you’re splitting a cord of wood for your fireplace or managing acres of woodland, The Backyard Lumberjack provides plenty of practical instruction and firsthand advice. Familiarize yourself with the proper equipment and safety gear, then learn how to fell, buck, split, and stack your own wood supply for the season. Veteran lumberjacks Frank Philbrick and Stephen Philbrick cover everything you need to know to bring a tree from the forest to your fireplace, safely and effectively.
£15.19
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Green Living: A Comprehensive Guide to a Happy
Book SynopsisDo you aspire to live a green or zero-waste life, but just don’t know where to begin? Green Living is here to guide you to an eco-friendly lifestyle through approachable, easy-to-implement strategies. Authored by the successful GreenMatters.com website, which is dedicated to making news and topics across sustainability and innovation accessible to everyone, this indispensable resource is packed with suggestions and ideas to implement sustainable living in all areas of your life and home. You’ll be inspired to dive deeper into green living and feel empowered by your choice to help the environment and create a healthier household. Learn not just the “why” of going green, but the “how,” with quick-and-easy tips to substitute unsustainable and unhealthy products with greener options. Each chapter has Seed, Sprout, and Tree steps to help meet you where you’re at and develop your green practices in a way that works with your lifestyle. With additional micro-actions and tips throughout as well as definitions for commonly used green terminology, this book is for people just getting started or those looking to learn more eco-friendly hacks. Save money (and the planet) with easy steps like switching to single-use alternatives like reusable straws and cloth shopping totes. Also, find resources to help you get creative and reuse materials you already have for a new purpose, from DIY pet toys to home decor, minimizing what you buy and preventing materials from going into the landfill. Other topics covered: Recycling and composting Eco-friendly cleaning Minimalist organizing Green beauty Sustainable fashion This comprehensive guide to green will take a permanent place on your bookshelf as you return to it again and again on your journey to sustainability.Table of Contents Contents Introduction 1: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 2: Shrinking Waste 3: Sustainability 4: Renewable Energy 5: A Clean Home 6: Detox Your Life Closing Resources Metric Equivalents Index Image Credits Acknowledgments About Green Matters
£14.24
Bramble & Bean Publishing House Never Mind the Burdocks A Year of Foraging in the
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£12.34
Orion Publishing Co Turning the Tide on Plastic
Book SynopsisAn accessible, practical and ultimately inspiring book that not only serves as a much-needed call to arms to end the plastic pandemic, but gives useful tools on how to make meaningful change in our everyday lives and advice on how to demand long-lasting action.Trade Review'Lucy is one of the true plastic-pollution pioneers' HUGO TAGHOLM, CEO Surfers Against Sewage'It is a great gift to be able to take a difficult and technical subject and turn it into a conversation with a friend that really stimulates you. Congratulations then to Lucy Siegle ...where most books on the environment blend the whiff of cordite with the style of Old Testament prophet. This book is special because it genuinely addresses the genius and threat of plastic and suggests solutions along the way. Most of all it is written in such a way as makes you want to read it rather than suffer through it. Intelligent, witty, passionate and serious of intent. This is a gem of a book- a primer and a call to action that will genuinely drive change.' SIR TIM SMIT, co-founder of the Eden Project'Feisty, excellent journalism, as you'd expect from Lucy Siegle, but also great practical ways we can all kick the plastic habit and start turning the tide. A must-buy, must-read book' KATE HUMBLE'Lucy Siegle turned the tide on the fashion pandemic in her last book. Now she turns her attention and brings her authority to bear on plastic, the environmental struggle of our age'. LIVIA FIRTH, UN Leader of Change and Founder of Eco Age Ltd.'Turning the Tide on Plastic is great, providing not just a cracking analysis of how we've let the plastics monster trash our planet, but a step-by-step guide on what we can do to start putting things right.' JONATHON PORRITT, Founder, Forum for the Future'Long before plastic pollution rose to the top of the public's consciousness, Lucy was a constant voice asking difficult questions and demanding answers on behalf of all of us. This excellent book tells the heartbreaking truth about the scale of the problem. It is a heroic wake-up call for everyone to take action, for the sake of future generations. I hope it will be part of the sea change our planet needs.' RICHARD WALKER, CEO Iceland'Turning The Tide on Plastic suggests simple and practical ways in which each one of us can help to reduce the use of plastic. I urge everyone to read it and take action.' DR JANE GOODALL DBE, world-leading primatologist and anthropologistAn impassioned and highly practical account of how to reduce our plastic consumption. -- Hannah Beckerman * OBSERVER *Informative -- Ella Walker * PRESS ASSOCIATION *[An] eye-opening manifesto...This is THE guide on how to turn the tide on plastic. * SUNDAY TIMES STYLE Instagram *A clear-sighted and immensely useful overview of the problems caused by plastic and the potential solutions. -- Ian Critchley * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE *
£11.07
Watkins Media Limited The Joyful Environmentalist: How to Practise
Book Synopsis"This is the joy we need in our lives." – George Monbiot. "This book, practical and realistic as well as visionary, will keep that positive message before the reader’s eyes. Joy is after all one of the best motivations we can have for change." – Dr Rowan Williams. Finally! A book about saving our planet that is fast, funny and inspiring too. Written in short chapters for busy people, Isabel doesn’t bother with an examination of the problem but gets right on with the solutions. Her aim: to look for every single way we can take care of the planet; how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, dress, vote, play, volunteer, bank – everything. And to do this wholeheartedly, energetically and joyfully. Beginning with losing her cool in a restaurant that will only provide plastic cutlery, Isabel journeys through native tree planting in the Highlands of Scotland, playing Samba drums with Extinction Rebellion, interviewing in person the people that supply her energy and food – through every solution she can find – until both narrator and reader are fully equipped to be part of the pollution solution. "She gave my spirit a lift and my feet somewhere to stand." – Sir Mark RylanceTrade Review"Told with humour and candour, The Joyful Environmentalist is a manifesto of brilliant advice offered with humility and good grace - it is a practical guide to empower us all." Isabella Tree ; "She gave my spirit a lift and my feet somewhere to stand." Mark Rylance ; "This book, practical and realistic as well as visionary, will keep that positive message before the reader's eyes. Joy is after all one of the best motivations we can have for change." Dr Rowan Williams ; "This is the joy we need in our lives, cutting through the despair to help us find our way in the world." George Monbiot ;
£11.69
The History Press Ltd VanLifers: Beautiful Conversions for Life on the
Book SynopsisLiving and travelling in converted vehicles has become increasingly popular in the UK in recent years and the coronavirus pandemic has only increased the trend further. Life on the road can offer an incomparable sense of freedom and community, with endless opportunity for new experiences, and a shift to simpler living. But what these travellers are after is very different from the traditional caravan holiday; instead these vans and trucks have been creatively turned into permanent homes, tailored to their owners’ tastes and interests. While some choose a ready-made van, for others the joy is in converting a vehicle themselves and making it personal and unique. With imaginative storage options, eco-friendly power sources, inventive layouts, and some very well-travelled pets, the options for these portable homes are limitless. This illustrated book reveals some of the most beautiful and innovative converted vehicles on the road and the most creative of van-dwellers, to inspire and delight every aspiring vanlifer.Trade Review"Documents the stories of people across the world - hipsters, retirees, families – who turned that (exhaust) pipe dream into reality..." * Wanderlust magazine *
£17.00
Workman Publishing Root Cellaring
Book SynopsisStretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables.
£13.29
Rowman & Littlefield Sustainable Sailing: Go Green When You Cast Off
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGoing green is the "in" phrase these days, and any publication that can make us more aware of the problems, and more pro-active in the prevention of pollution, ought to be high on any caring person's reading list. Sustainable Sailing is right up there. * Sailing *...provides a fine survey of best practices showing sailors how to reduce their carbon footprint and lessen their impact on the environment. From issues on sewage and burning fossil fuels that pollute to using toxic paints, Sustainable Sailing considers alternatives and new options in a fine pick for any sailor's library. * Bookwatch *
£18.04
Workman Publishing Greywater, Green Landscape: How to Install Simple
Book SynopsisKeep your lawn and garden lush without wasting resources by capturing and recycling the greywater that drains from your sink, shower, and washing machine. This accessible and detailed guide walks you through each step of planning for and installing a variety of greywater systems, including laundry-to-landscape and branched drain gravity-fed systems. After identifying greywater sources in your home and estimating flow rate, you’ll learn to pinpoint where to redirect the wastewater for the greatest benefit. No matter which system you decide to build, you'll have the information to construct it yourself or move forward with confidence to hire a professional.
£12.99
Watkins Media Limited The Way Back Almanac 2023: A contemporary
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated throughout, each month includes sections on stargazing, gardening tips, seasonal vegan recipes, home organization or crafting ideas, digital wellbeing practices, rituals, book club reads, folklore or ancient wisdom as told by modern people from different walks of life, and free space for your own writing, notes or recipes. Harvest your own home-grown micro greens, windowsill radishes or rooftop carrots. Celebrate seasonal citrus with Piña Colada Bars or relieve the heat of midsummer with Lithuanian beetroot gazpacho. Sew your own foraging pouch for May-time foraging or make a bee bath for thirsty July bees. Create a phone photo journal of your favourite patch of local green. Make your own Wake-Up Shower Fizzers or May Day Dew Face Wash. Watch the 120-meteor-per-hour Geminid Shower to see out the year in Way Back style. This interactive and treasured item will gently encourage creativity, fulfillment and ultimately a way back to yourself.
£10.39
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd Home Bird: Simple, Low-Waste Recipes for Family
Book SynopsisWant to eat well, reduce food and packaging waste and save some money? Home Bird is here to help, going back to basics with seasonal, bold and wholesome recipes that are not only better for the environment but also your well-being and budget. Influenced by nostalgic meals and cooking for loved ones, Megan Davies has written this book for the eco-minded home cook. She includes invaluable tips on how to make ingredients stretch; from potato peel crisps to pickled cucumber and beetroot. Megan also features ways to turn leftovers into a new meal, such as a Roasted Fennel, Chive and Dill Pasta Bake or Frittata, both from a leftover Raw Fennel, Chive and Dill Salad. Recipes include multi-tasking brunch or late-night dishes such as Bircher Pancakes or Sweet Potato Baked Eggs. Suppers for Sharing that can be scaled up to feed a crowd or down for a more intimate occasion range from Roasted Squash with Almonds and Tarragon to the best Roast Chicken recipe with Pan Pastry Croutons (plus, of course, ways to use up any uneaten chicken!). From On the Side accompaniments and stunning Sweet Things such as Pot Luck Tarte Tatin this collection of delicious and ingenious recipes will have all the inspiration you need to run a more sustainable home kitchen, reduce your carbon footprint and make the sort of small changes at home that can make a big difference to our world.
£16.99
Caitlin Press Chicken Poop for the Soul: In Search of Food
Book SynopsisFood sovereignty goes beyond addressing the need to secure a daily food source. Food sovereignty means having the right to determine where your food comes from and how it is produced. In 2008, alarmed by the impact agro-business was having on Canadian food quality and security, Kristeva Dowling decided to take control of her own food source. In an attempt to achieve 100 percent self-sufficiency on her small holding in BC''s Bella Coola Valley, she ploughed under her land, converted her garage to an intensive care unit for chickens and learned to hunt, fish, gather and preserve her own food. In the tradition of the "back-to-the-landers" of the ''60s, Dowling sheds the habits of her urban life and, with no agricultural background, begins an emotional and political journey towards independence. Dowling''s story is a witty, humorous and often bizarre journey of trial and error. Between rendering maple syrup, mothering baby chicks, canning hundreds of pounds of preserves, tracking wild game and growing her own wheat, Dowling finds time to reflect on her new-found tangible skills, her intangible problems and the politics and legislative barriers that face BC''s small farming community. This book is about a common dream: to leave the city and return to a simpler life. It is a story of success, failure and determination, which is guaranteed to make you laugh, shake your head in disbelief and get damned angry.
£16.19
Luath Press Ltd You Are What You Grow: Life, Land and the Pursuit
Book SynopsisBased on her hit Allotment Tales column for "The Scotsman and New Consumer Magazine", Antonia Swinson - the First Lady of the allotment - shares, not only her tips for gardening and allotment management, but also the effect of her time spent in the mud. Written with humour and vim You Are What You Grow is her extraordinary original vision of how the world ticks. Scything down the caricature of the allotmenteer, this is a social and political critique from an allotmenteer's point of view. Antonia explores issues such as the history of British land ownership, organic produce and self-sufficiency, community building and the psychological benefits to be found by allotmenteering. The work is divided by season with gardening tips, money saving ideas and promotion of healthy, and organic food.Trade ReviewMore a lively account of her musings over a year spent in her plot than a practical guide to growing radishes, but gives food for thought, as well as for the plate. THE SUNDAY TIMESYou Are What You Grow, Antonia Swinson's charming and amusing essays on our relationship with the earth, allotments and food and her reflections on our relationships with the land are the ideal accompaniment to Shakespeare, taking us out of our fuggy living rooms and into the reality that Shakespeare faced on his yearly returns to Stratford. THE GUIDE
£8.49
Pimpernel Press Ltd Living the Good Life in the City: A Journey to
Book SynopsisSara Ward has transformed her Victorian terraced house in London into an urban smallholding, 'Hen Corner'. Sara passionately believes that it’s possible to combine the benefits of urban living with some of the qualities associated with the country living dream: spending time with nature, producing and making our own food, sustainability and community, and in Living the Good Life in the City she shares some of the ways she and her family have brought city and country together, and shows that you, too, can make a difference to how you live and the food you eat. Divided into sections covering Make, Grow, Preserve, Keep, and Celebrate, Living the Good Life in the City is packed full of recipes, stories, tips and tricks including baking bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages and cheese, keeping bees and livestock, preserving, foraging, harvesting and celebrating with food. Make explores our power and responsibilities as consumers and encourages us to start making food from scratch. In Grow – whether in a window box or allotment – Sara shares her experience of how to grow your own ingredients for the family table whilst Preserve is how to process your harvest to enjoy it all year round. In Keep Sara explores options for keeping chickens, bees and larger livestock, sharing the joys and responsibilities that come with that. Celebrate is about marking the highlights of the year with delicious recipes for family and friends. Finally, Inform brings together Sara’s best resources to inspire the reader to bring ideas into fruition.Trade Review"Packed full of recipes, stories, tips and tricks including baking bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages and cheese, keeping bees and livestock and growing your own." * Essential Surrey *'Packed full of advice . . . this is a lovely insight into what life looks like when you combine country and city living.' * Daily Mail *'The book shares some of the ways in which she and her family have brought city and country together, how you can make changes to how you live and the food you eat, improving your quality of life, saving money and reducing your impact on the environment in the process.' * Chiswick Calendar *'An entertaining read and great source of ideas and inspiration.''Packed full of recipes, stories, tip and tricks including baking bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages and cheese, keeping bees and livestock and growing your own.'
£19.80
Wilkinson Publishing Happy Planet Living: Simple Ways to Live a
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£17.99
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Green your life: Green Your School (An
Book SynopsisThis series is a practical guide that aims to make children environment friendly in their everyday life. In all the four titles of Green Your Life. Green Genius, the environment enthusiast, shares practical tips to green his home, shopping, school and neighbourhood and encourages hands-on application of information about ways to save the planet.
£5.22
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Green your life: Green Your Shopping (An
Book SynopsisThis series is a practical guide that aims to make children environment friendly in their everyday life. In all the four titles of Green Your Life. Green Genius, the environment enthusiast, shares practical tips to green his home, shopping, school and neighbourhood and encourages hands-on application of information about ways to save the planet.
£5.22
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Theres Always Room at the Table
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£27.00
Little, Brown & Company Cabin Porn Inspiration for Your Quiet Place
Book Synopsis Are you yearning for a simpler existence? Find the rural escape of your dreams in this beautiful book from the creators of the wildly popular tumblr Cabin Porn.Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York, Cabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which is now a huge and obsessive audience.The site features photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in the backcountry of America and all over the world. It has had over 10 million unique visitors, with 350,000 followers on Tumblr. Now Zach Klein, the creator of the site (and a co-founder of Vimeo) goes further into the most alluring images from the site and new getaways, including more interior photography and how-to advice for setting up a quiet place somewhere.With their idyllic settings, unique architecture and cozy interiors, the Cabin Porn phot
£13.77
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Tiny House Live Small Dream Big
Book SynopsisFrom the founder of the Instagram feed @TinyHouse, comes a small, chunky inspiration book filled with photographs of the smallest abodes—from vans and boats to tree houses and cabins. A die-cut cover acts as a window onto a simpler world of lighter living and sustainability that never sacrifices function or design.Imagine living debt-free in an environmentally-friendly home. No mortgage, no clutter, and boundless freedom. This is the reality and dream of people all over the world thanks to the widespread momentum of the tiny house movement in recent years. Designed to fit on the tiniest of coffee tables, this book features 250 full-color photographs of the smallest, most efficient homes around the world, with interviews, features, and smart tips straight from the homeowners. From tiny mobile homes in California, Nashville, and Minnesota to a surfer-built tree house in Washington to a school bus that has been converted to a camper in Oregon, this lookbook is packed
£16.20
Eleanor Martha Decker Folded Book Art Made Easy
£16.15
